The Times of India

Will NDAs house of cards hold in Tamil Nadu? Balancing between 'koottani' and 'kattuppadu'

For Tamil Nadus political culture, shaped by decades of Dravidian assertion and a strong emphasis on regional autonomy, such an explicit pre-election claim has few precedents. The reaction within the AIADMK has been wary, if not outright resistant, as the BJPs clout in the South remains lean. The pre-poll power-sharing deal, however, is only one strand in a much larger and more byzantine political development.